Allen Ginsberg class on Expansive Poetics. He opens by talking about Pushkin and reads his "The Prophet," "Message to Syberia" and a couple others. He then moves to American `19th century authors and talks about Edgar Allen Poe and reads "The Bells" and "Anabelle Lee." He then talks about rhythm and the spondee and goes into great details explaining and giving examples of different meters. He defines meter and foot. Then he moves into Herman Mellville and reads "Billy in the Darbies," "The housetop a night piece" and "to ned bund." He then closes the class by reading and discussing sections of Walt Whitman's "Song of myself." This is part of a long series

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